Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta became Sakka. At that time a knavish ascetic built a hermitage of leaves in a mango orchard on a river bank near Benares, and keeping watch over the mangoes, ate the ripe fruit that fell from the mango trees and also gave some to his kinsfolk, and lived there gaining his livelihood by various false practices.

At this time Sakka, king of heaven, thought “Who, I wonder, in this world of men support their parents, pay honour to the aged members of their family, give alms, keep the moral law and observe fast days? Which of them after adopting the religious life, continually devote themselves to the duties befitting priests, and which of again are guilty of misconduct?” And exploring the world he spied this false wicked ascetic keeping watch over his mangoes and said, “This false ascetic, abandoning his duties as a priest, is continuosly watching a mango orchard. I will frighten him soundly.”